Cloning is Evil
Cloning is a process that has been debated for decades, and all the arguments are now coming to a head. The thought of cloning has been around since the turn of the century, but was not given much publication until the genre of science fiction pursued it in novels, comics, magazines and television shows in the mid-1950's. When Dolly, a sheep, was cloned, many people, including scientists, religious leaders, politicians, and common people, were held in fascination as the cloning process was explained to them on every major network television channel. People watched as the theory was put to use in certain stages of sheep and frogs being cloned. Many people also came to the realization that cloning is a scientific blight upon humanity, which should not be pursued any further. Cloning will, for the most part, degrade the ethics and civility of humanity until the population is either: a) no longer recognizably human, or b) subjected to various forms of barbarianism including slavery, mass production of "spare" humans, and the coercement of the gene pool. Cloning, if stopped, will leave many resources free for other scientific pursuits that could better humanity, or raise the overall standard of living. The freed
manpower could also be put to more useful scientific tasks, such as food manipulation, or ecology control. If the research of cloning is not stopped, the end result could well be a eugenics war, or the inevitable death of the most powerful species on the planet...humanity. To recap, cloning's benefits by no means justify the grave risks associated by the pursuit of this science, as it will likely end humanity's term of ruling this planet. Cloning does have a few good possibilities, like cloning individual organs for donation, and cloning food for the hungry, but cloning humans should be avoided like the plague. Would you feel comfortable knowing that, when you give a urine sample to the doctor, they could likely be giving the government the ability to clone you? How would cloning affect people's personal morality? Likely, people's epistemology would change from a deontological form to a consequential form. Would you wish this affliction upon humanity? None of the above-stated arguments are compelling enough to merit cloning as an ethical line of research. The flaws included within each pro-cloning statement are innumerable, but, due to space constraints, only a few will be mentioned. Having, hopefully, successfully refuted the pro-cloning stance, it is time to support the reasons for stopping cloning research and implementation. To start, the topics of clone/original discrimination will be pursued, followed by the topic of eugenics. Large majorities of people still presume that cloning will better society, and that the level of technological improvement gained in the short term justifies the few "minor" adjustmen
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